Metro

Court sentences 34 joggers to one-month community service, 14-day isolation for flouting lockdown order in Lagos

Published by

The Lagos State Magistrate’s Court in Yaba has sentenced 34 Gbagada residents to one-month community service and be in isolation for 14 days for violating the social distancing rule of the Lagos state government.

The 34 Gbagada residents were arrested and arraigned before the court for gathering to work out on the Gbagada-Oworonshoki highway despite the Federal Government’s 14-day lockdown of the state to check the spread of coronavirus.

Pictures of the joggers, who gathered in large numbers on the highway to work out, had surfaced on the social media on Tuesday.

Having pleaded guilty to one count charge against them, The court ordered that they should be quarantined for 14 days at the Infectious Diseases Hospital, Yaba, or any other place designated by the government.

Recent Posts

Anambra guber: INEC extends continuous voter registration to July 20

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has extended the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise in…

8 minutes ago

Saraki’s ally dumps PDP for ADC in Kwara

"However, it has become pertinent to move forward to seek greater progress for my constituencies…

16 minutes ago

Post Office systems restored after widespread outage across UK

The outage comes amid recent high-profile cyber incidents.

18 minutes ago

Repayment of student loan stops after beneficiary’s death — NELFUND

While stating that NELFUND does not guarantee jobs, the managing director disclosed that a centralised…

21 minutes ago

Zelenskyy appoints Ukraine’s first prime minister since Russian war

Svyrydenko previously served as economy minister and one of the country’s deputy prime ministers since…

29 minutes ago

Edo: Asue Ighodalo’s campaign DG resigns from PDP

The Director-General of the Asue/Ogie Campaign Council for the Edo State 2024 governorship election, Matthew…

29 minutes ago

Welcome

Install

This website uses cookies.